At the introductory press conference for K 2022, Dr Thorsten Thümen, Senior Director Technology, outlined the company’s evolving strategic focus.

Senior Director for Technology Dr. Thorsten Thümen announces several premieres at K 2022.

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Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

kunststoffe-international.com

kunststoffe.de

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Energieeffizienz

Elektrische Antriebe für Spritzgießmaschinen

Antriebe

Elektrische Antriebe

Spritzgießmaschinen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

New High-Speed Machine for the Packaging Market

On 1 August 2022, Stalinjose Selvanayagam has taken up his position as Managing Director of the sales and service subsidiary of Engel in Mumbai.

Stalinjose Selvanayagam heads Engel‘s sales and service subsidiary in Mumbai as managing director.

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Personalmanagement

Produktion

Stalinjose Selvanayagam is New Managing Director

Dr. Boy is picking up on the main themes of K 2022 with two trade show premieres and other specific applications. One of these themes, which Boy has espoused, is the digitalization or increasing networking of the plastics industry.

The diverse elements of the Boy digitalization package.

Hybridtechnik

Steuerungen (Hardware und Software)

Automatisierungstechnik

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

New Control System before the Premiere

How the direct compounding opens up new potential to reduce CO2 footprint – also for smaller components thanks to a further development from KraussMaffei.

DCIM technology enables injection molding and compounding in a single heating process.

Efficiency Meets Sustainability: Systematically Reduce Costs and CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions

Extruder

Extrusionsanlagen

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Compoundieren

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Cost-Effective Direct Compounding for Medium-Sized Components

At K 2022, Engel, with its partners Alpla Group, Brink and IPB Printing, is presenting a quantum leap for the packaging industry. Thin-wall containers can for the first time be produced from PET directly by injection molding in only one process step.

Fig. 1. The thin-walled containers are injection molded from rPET.

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Schmelzefilter

Polyethylenterephthalat

Thermoplaste

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Processing rPET by Thin-Wall  Injection Molding

Netstal presents new solutions for high-performance injection molding in Düsseldorf.

aXos control unit with “Smart Operation:” the guided machine operation enables users to achieve additional productivity increases.

Medizintechnik

Medizinprodukte

Fast, Precise and Networked

Under the motto “It‘s all Wittmann”, Wittmann Battenfeld is presenting its machines and systems in the new Wittmann design for the first time.

Automation cell with SmartPlus 90 for manufacturing a spirit level.

Schaumspritzgießen

Spritzprägen

Biokunststoffe

Naturmaterialien

Verstärkungsstoffe

Green DC Current for the Injection Molding Machine

The Bavarian machine manufacturer LWB Steinl, with the multicell, is presenting an unusual method for processing polymer molding compounds.

In the Multicell, the cycle steps are split up between multiple stations.

Industrieroboter

Montagetechnik

Cycle Separated into Individual Processes

Three solutions for increasing the productivity in the automotive, medical and packaging industries are presented by Tederic at K 2022 with the Neo injection molding machine series. T

The Neo·Ec combines electrical and hydraulic drives.

Polylactid

Applications in Three Key Sectors

ZF Vigo is now taking compounding into its own hands – with the DCIM process from KraussMaffei.

From the left: Eduardo Casas (ZF, Injection Molding Specialist), Edgar Lopez (ZF, Manufacturing Engineer), Thomas Drogi (KraussMaffei, Process Engineer), Christian Seyferth (KraussMaffei, Global Expert Sales), Achim Härtel (ZF, Core Engineer Plastics), Jacob Seco (ZF, Manufacturing Engineer Specialist), Jose Trasobares (ZF, Manufacturing Engineering Manager), Angel Lemus (Coscollola, Director Post-Venta), Antonio Muñoz (Coscollola, Director Comercial Inyección), Ramazan Baser (Motan-Colortronic, Project Engineer)

Developing, Testing and Protecting Proprietary Formulations

This year, the world’s leading trade show K has succeeded in presenting practical solutions for greater resource efficiency on a broad front. A first foray through the trade show grounds.

K 2022 gave numerous practical examples showing visitors how recyclates can be reliably processed with digital aids.

State-of-the-Art Injection Molding Solutions for Greater Resource Efficiency.

State-of-the-Art Injection Molding Solutions at K 2022

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Solar / PV

Energieerzeugung

Erneuerbare Energie

Temperiertechnik

Condition Monitoring / Prozessüberwachung

Instandhaltung

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Oberflächentechnik

Digitalisierung

Silikonkautschuk

Kautschuk / Elastomere

It Can Be Done!

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag continues to expand all-electric platform and extends its high-speed IntElect S series.

IntElect S all-electric high-performance injection molding machine.

Short Cycles, High Material Throughput

Arburg presents its expertise on important topics such as sustainability, digitalization, energy efficiency and automation at the Anniversary Days.

The new Allrounder 470 H hybrid machine (here in the “Comfort” version) is setting the stage for a new machine technology that is particularly energy-saving, resource-efficient, production efficient and user friendly.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Dienstleistungen

Unternehmen und Unternehmer

Wirtschaft

In-House Trade Show with Special Signs

Where the managing directors see the greatest challenges in the future.

Michael Wittmann, Managing Partner of the Wittmann Group and Managing Director of Wittmann Technology

Strategie und Organisation

Schröder, Susanne

Materialhandling

“We Need Openness in All Directions”

In foam injection molding by the ZiFoam principle, gas is added to the pellet stock while it is still in the solid range.

Small pores, big difference (micrograph): Foaming makes the manufactured parts much more lightweight, consumes less resources and improves the CO2 balance.

Flexible Retrofit Set for Thermoplastic Foam Injection Molding

Leichtbau

Physical Foaming Made (More) Easy

Mobile Injection Molding Complements Large-Volume 3D Printing

How in-process or downstream injection molding improves the quality of high-volume 3D-printed parts.

In recent years, a number of companies have jumped on the train of large-scale 3D printing based on plastic pellets, which is why the applications for realizing technical components are also increasing rapidly. This production technology is known as large-scale additive manufacturing (LSAM). From established injection molding and special machine manufacturers to startups, a variety of different LSAM printers are offered using gantry systems or robotics.

These printers are characterized by high output rates of 10 to 30 kg/h and the processing of common thermoplastics. However, the high output rate goes hand in hand with the fact that the detail accuracy of the components, as known from injection molding, for example, has its limits. Currently, the molded parts are often reworked in the milling process, for example, to smooth the characteristic surface of 3D printed structures and to create precisely fitting functional surfaces.

The mobile injection molding system “Robin“ of Anybrid GmbH now offers a new alternative of process-integrated or downstream functionalization of 3D-printed components. Due to the unique possibility of the Robin system to mount it on classical industrial robotics, it is possible to integrate it directly into the LSAM production cell in order to inject functionalizations locally onto the components. In initial trials in cooperation with the Institute for Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology at TU Dresden, the proof of concept was successfully carried out. After brief surface heating, additively manufactured plates were locally compacted and formed by applying the clamping force. In this way, the sealing of the mold cavity can be ensured for the subsequent overmolding process.

TU Dresden - Institut für Leichtbau u. Kunststofftechnik 

ANYBRID GmbH  

https://www.anybrid.de

The mobile injection molding „Robin“ can be used as a supplement to large-volume 3D printing.

Overmolding of the 3D printed structures (top); comparison of the 3D printed and the compacted surface (bottom left); overmolded rib structure (bottom right).

Interaktionen der aufgespritzten Polymermatrix mit dem gedruckten LSAM-Halbzeug.

2023-01-30 Anybrid TT

Anybrid macht Spritzgießmaschinen leicht, mobil und flexibel

Im Januar 2022 hat die <i>Kunststoffe</i> die Anybrid GmbH zum Start-up des Monats gekürt und ein Interview mit den Gründern des Unternehmens geführt. Ihre Überzeugung: <a href="https://www.kunststoffe.de/a/interview/das-mobile-spritzgiessen-braucht-zeit-zu-3279575" target="_blank">Das mobile Spritzgießen isteine Technologie mit viel Potenzial.</a>

„Wir gehen fest davon aus, dass großvolumige 3D-Druck Anlagen in der Zukunft standardmäßig mit unserem mobilen Spritzgießsystem ausgestattet sind.“